Truck for handling brick



(No Model.)

' J. S. ARMSTRONG.

TRUCK FOR HANDLING BRIGK.

Patented May 8, 1883.

WITNESSES ATTORNEY S.

N. PETins. Pmlmlilbognd'lcr, Washinginn. DC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E,

JACOB S. ARMSTRONG, OF REPUBLIC, OHIO.

.TRUCK FOR HANDLING BRICVK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 277,187, dated May 8, 1883,

Application filed Augustfi, 1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, J A0013 S. ARMSTRONG,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Republic, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hand- Oartand Attachments for Conveying Brick, of which the following is a full, clear,'and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the handcart with the platform suspended therefrom by hooks. Fig. 2 is a top view. of the handcart. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the platform and suspending-hooks, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the platform filled with brick.

Similar letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for conveying brick from one place to another more conveniently and expeditiously than by hand, or to carry molded brick from the mill to the drying-sheds, or to remove the dried brick from the drying-sheds tothe kilns; and theinvention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts of a hand-cart and its attachments for conveying brick, as .will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents my improved hand-cart for the conveyance of brick from place to place; and it consists of an axle of the oi'dinary construction, on the ends of which wheels of common form are looselyjournaled, the wheels turning on a fixed axle. To the axle, near its upperends, are securedtwo longitudinal parallel bars projectin g forward, and connected together at their forward ends by a bar, a, parallel with the axle tree, thus forming a rectangular frame, B, securely attached at itsrear end to the axle. The ends of the bar aproject laterally on each side beyond the frame B, and are each provided with a slot, q, for the passage of handles (1 d of the cart, the inner ends of the handles being pivoted laterally to the axle parts of which=pass through staples secured to the frame B, and each rod 0 is bent rightangularly downward, and passes through a slot, f, in the handle d, the vertical parts or shanks of the rods cc being arranged on opposite sides of the frame B, and each termin ating in a T-shaped head, 8, provided with inwardly-projecting hooksb, adapted to catch I under the oppositeparallel edges of the platform H. By this construction it will be seen that the platform H, loaded with bricks, can readily be. moved from place to place by wheeling the cart by its handles over the load ed platform, then moving the handles downwardly until the hooks on the T-headslie opposite or below the under face of the platform,

then moving the handles din their slots in the.

frame inwardly until thehooks engage under the platform, when the platform will be seized by the hooks and can be wheeled to any desired place, and deposited there by lowering the outer ends of the'handles and withdrawing the books from engagement with the platform by moving the handles outwardly in their slots in the frame.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a hand-cart having laterally-hinged handles, of right-angular rods having hooked T-shaped heads adapted to be moved laterally by the handles, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the hand-cart A and frame B, provided with the forward cross-bar, to, having slots q q, and laterallypivoted handles (1, provided with'the slots f, of the rodsc 0, provided with the T-heads 3, having hooks 11, substantially as shown and described.

. JACOB s. ARMSTRONG.

Witnesses STEPHEN LAPHAM, LEWIS HAWK. 

